136 PRACTICAL NOTES ON GRASSES AND GRASS GROWING. 
A bushel should weigh 28 lb., each pound of which is 
reputed to contain 1,500,000 of germinating seeds. 
Rep Fescur (FESTUCA RUBRA, LINN.), 
This may be classified as a fancy grass, but it is valuable in 
some respects, and therefore we have thought fit to mention 
it. It will stand even more drought than Ovina ; in fact, 
when established it is very difficult to get rid of, and is even 
more hardy than Duriuscula. 
It produces first-class herbage, and it is said that hares wilt 
travel for miles to secure a bite of it. It is distinguishable by 
the ruddy appearance of its leaves; unlike other grasses it 
grows more nutritious the older it becomes. A mixture of 
red fescue sown on very poor land where good grass is desired 
is to be recommended, and in a first-class pasture mixture, 
where the cost of seed is not a great consideration, it will be 
found not amiss. 
Its seed is so similar to Festuca duriuscula that a separate 
description and estimate of its weight and germinating qualities 
is unnecessary. 
VarIous-LEAVED FESCUE (FESTUCA HETEROPHYLLA, SUTT.). 
We should scarcely have mentioned another fescue except 
for the fact that this various-leaved fescue possesses the peculi- 
arity of growing better under the shade of trees than it does in 
the open. Various-leaved fescue makes good sheep feed, and 
grows in tufts, which will not amalgamate with other grasses. 
The foliage has a somewhat darker appearance to most other 
fescues, but its seeds are so similar that it is difficult to give a 
separate description. 
